The Great Gatsby

Because Gatsby is standing alone, searching for the elusive Daisy, he is shown to not be content. He finds no joy in having all these people here if he cannot find his Daisy. He views Daisy as the person that will bring him to an even higher social class, because even though he is rich, he still remembers the social value Daisy encompasses because of her abundance of lovers. Ultimately he wants to swell his ego, to tame the wild beast, because Daisy wasn’t settled down before with any one man. Even though she is now married, he still views her with the same awe of when he first laid eyes on her at camp, even remarking that “‘Her voice is full of money’”(127) in reference to his percieved value of her when they first met. Quintessentially, Gatsby has narcissism flowing through his veins because he is attempting to recreate a past to soothe his remorse from when he initially left Daisy to fight in the war.

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is told from the perspective of one of the main characters, Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his life story. To everyone else, he is a mystery. Everyone seems obsessed with Jay Gatsby. For this reason the novel revolves about rumors of Gatsby rather than the truth.

Gatsby is then reminded of his low status when Daisy’s mother“…had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New York and say goodbye to a soldier who was going overseas. She was effectually prevented, but she wasn’t on speaking terms with her family for several weeks.” (75) From that moment Gatsby becomes motivated to become one of the wealthy elite in order to win Daisy and her family.

     Gatsby’s expresses his character through his lies and rumors that were started. It also showed that he wanted the one

He has gone to great lengths to make himself appear as appealing to a girl who never proves herself to be worthy of sacrifice. Gatsby creates a facade for himself in order to appear as a man who- in his mind- would be worthy of Daisy’s affection.

The Great Gatsby is too concerned with conveying a picture of 1920s American society to have relevance to modern readers.

Let’s say that there is a person who has an important goal that he wants to eventually reach, such as becoming a professional football player. He goes to all the practices, goes to the gym everyday, and he studies all of the plays that he might do. He puts in tons of work and at the end of highschool he gets a scholarship to play football in college. So, he is on the team, and on his first day of practice, he has a career ending injury. He can no longer play football for the rest of his life. How do you think that made him feel? The Great Gatsby is a book about a man, named Nick, who has a neighbor, called Gatsby, who likes a woman who he knew in the past. Of Mice and Men is a book about two men, named George and Lennie. They are trying to get a job and enough money to buy some land, so they can “live off the fatta the land” (Fitzgerald 14-15). The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men both show characters that are determined to achieve the american dream. As these characters get closer to achieving the american dream, things start to go downhill. This shows that no matter how determined someone is to achieve the american dream, they might not be able to achieve this dream.

Even though both stories show the same theme, in the play “Macbeth,” the theme isn’t as strong as it could be. In the beginning the main character Macbeth is loyal but as the story continues, Macbeth transforms into this character who disobeys his friends and family. He’s no longer looked at as a leader. At times he realizes he made the wrong choices, but at other times he thought him being king was his destiny. Macbeth says “I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born” (Shakespeare 212). When he says this, he thinks he has nothing to worry about because being king is his destiny and he doesn’t have to worry in the

I think Nicks reasons for thinking of Jay Gatsby as "the great Gatsby", is because Jay Gatsby has done or said he has done a lot in his life to get to where he is today. He makes himself sound very good when he tells nick everything in the car. Nick was sort of shocked by how successful he is or was. Jay is not keeping his past from society; he's more open with it. People decide to make up these rumors because Gatsby was never really noticed by anyone to be able to tell the truth about everything he's done in his past.

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is seen as a mysterious character that’s not called great or bad. The Great Gatsby takes place in the 1920’s during the “roaring twenties” or called as the “Jazz Age”, a period ending the Great Depression and an era where jazz and dancing become trendy. Gatsby does not seem to be fit to be called “great”, instead he is fit for being called a determined man. Some may not call Gatsby “great” because of his lies and some will call him “great” because he is a man who is determined to get Daisy back from Tom or because Gatsby is a nice man who does not have much ignorance like Tom. An example why Gatsby do not deserve to be called a “great” man is because he is a liar and a “great” man does not

Gatsby was a man that made other men jealous of what he had. He had a huge mansion where he threw the biggest parties around. I’m sure that’s how many of you came to know him. Gatsby’s parties were unbelievably luxurious. Many of you may not have known that everything he ever planned was done so he could see Daisy. Daisy is my cousin and Gatsby wanted nothing more than to be with Daisy.This past year he tried everything to make me happy so that he could become closer to Daisy and court her. Gatsby is not fake or a user, except to get to daisy.

Gatsby seems to thrive behind the lies people have created of him. He has no intention of even correcting these lies about himself. Even among a group of people, it would be difficult to pick him out because even in the book, Gatsby “looked at me and smiled” from among a group of people (51). Gatsby blends with everyone and he just feels that no one should

In the novella The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, there are endless differences in the plot, but stunning similarity between the themes that are discussed. A major theme in both works is the theme of ambition, more specifically what their objectives are, how they attempt to attain them, and the product of their endeavours. Jay Gatsby, from The Great Gatsby, is one of the main characters that demonstrates the theme of ambition throughout the plot. In the play Macbeth, the main character, Macbeth, also shows these characteristics. An example of these characteristics is Jay Gatsby wanting to achieve the ‘American Dream’; becoming wealthy and having lots of success in everything. Macbeth, also shows these qualities, as he has an unquenchable thirst to rule over Scotland. Ambition is a key theme in both The Great Gatsby, and Macbeth; the main characters both possess it, and it demonstrates how it can lead to power, then to demise.

A man who is never seen at his own parties, who gives new clothing to complete strangers, and a man who’s rumored to be so many people. A man that so many people aspire to be, this man is Gatsby. In the exciting novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is described as a mysterious, wealthy, kind person. His unknown past, luxurious parties, and his kind acts help shape his character.

“His smile was the smile, that you will come across only four to five times in your life”. (The Great Gatsby). He knew the secrets of talking that he would look at you the way you wanted him to be look at. He never interrupts you when you are talking. But even having all these qualities he was also in the dilemma of class consciousness that he wanted to be someone that he never was. He also loved a woman who was a wife of some other person. He was a bootlegger to maintain the life that he wanted to acquire that was really not easy at that time. The end of Gatsby’s story is also tragic that he was murdered in the wait of his beloved by the hands of his ex-mistress’s